Improving Customs Transit Systems
In the Islamic Countries
92
37. Coordinated border management No
Not yet, but
planned
Yes
Do you have dedicated road lanes at border points / ports
for transit
50.00% 0.00% 50.00%
Are you sharing the Infrastructure and equipment (for
example non-intrusive inspection technology, scanners,
forklifts, etc.)?
50.00% 16.70% 33.30%
Source: Authors’ own compilation
3.1.1.10 Availability of Transit information
More than two-thirds of the MS have established a communication system or channel in place
for the notification of changes in national regulations of the CTR, and in 83.3% of the cases, the
information on changes in transit fees and charges are published in advance .
Table 29: Advanced publication of transit fees and charges
41. Advanced publication of transit fees and charges
N Percent
There is no prior publication of changes to fees and charges 1 16.7%
Information on changes is published in advance 5 83.3%
Information on changes is published in advance on the customs website 2 33.3%
Total 8 133.3%
Source: Authors’ own compilation
50% of the MS is publishing information on transit fees and charges in paper-based and, on the
customs website .
Table 30: Availability of information on transit fees and charges
42. Availability of information on transit fees and charges
N Percent
Information on transit fees and charges is not published 2 33.3%
Information is available in paper publications 3 50.0%
Information is published on the customs website 3 50.0%
Information is published on the trade portal website 2 33.3%
Information is published on the Single Window portal 2 33.3%
Source: Authors’ own compilation
In most of the cases (60%), there is not free publicly accessible CTR related national information
portal or another kind of sources for the transportation and trade communities in the exempt
case studies and publicly known whistle policy and instruments within the CTR, e.g., telephone
number (Table 31).